Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] [coord] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Land registers record disused public-sector land : between 1981 and 1988 , about 50,000 acres were identified and subsequently developed . |
| 2 | About 40 possible sites were inventoried and then proposed to the appropriate regional authorities for an opinion . |
| 3 | After pressing , the pockets were tied and then stored in the ground-floor storage area , which was only required as a space in which the pockets were hung and for stoking the fires in the kilns . |
| 4 | Isolates were obtained and successfully grown in vitro from 40 patients . |
| 5 | In those days a new house was usually constructed out of wooden hut sections of which there was a plentiful supply as most of the troops stationed here in the war lived in wooden prefabricated buildings and when they left Orkney the buildings were dismantled and then sold . |
| 6 | They also found that weed growth could be substantially decreased if radishes were grown and then cultivated into the soil . |
| 7 | Rural areas and subsistence-level farmers were neglected or actually excluded from the benefits which copper exports made possible in terms of schools , health facilities , agricultural inputs and credit ( Bwayla 1980 , Klepper 1980 , 1981 , ODG 1981 ) . |
| 8 | At a chosen time during their exposure to the flashing light , the birds were injected with the radioactive precursor , the training continued , the chicks were tested and then killed . |
| 9 | Moreover , even in states where entrance examinations were testing and strictly applied , many of the highest diplomatic posts continued to be given to men who were not professional diplomats . |
| 10 | Five other items were prepared but never performed ( The Haunted Man ; The Bastille Prisoner ; Great Expectations ; Mrs Lirriper 's Lodgings ; The Signalman ) . |
| 11 | Laurel 's marital toils were convoluted and confusingly reported . |
| 12 | Most of the work was done by the slaves who , provided they did not try to escape , were often reasonably treated although their quarters were cramped and poorly finished . |
| 13 | When the groups came together it was because in the fiction the Argonauts were landing and desperately needed food and shelter — which the younger children enormously enjoyed providing . |
| 14 | Patients were disimpacted and then treated with dietary fibre and daily milk of magnesia , and the laxative was slowly discontinued once normal bowel movements had been accomplished . |
| 15 | All those surveyed by Caterer & Hotelkeeper made sure charges were displayed and also offered guests the choice of using telephone call boxes in the hotel lobby . |
| 16 | A further three wells were drilled and successfully tested to appraise the field — the last being completed in 1991 . |
| 17 | Popular forms were expropriated and then given back suitably packaged . |
| 18 | On the first day of the ban , signs banning bikes were ignored and eventually ripped down . |
| 19 | Other more drastic proposals were ventilated but never put into practice . |
| 20 | The interaction between SENSS teachers and class teachers as they work together with the class and as they exchange information is a great improvement on the situation which pertained in the days when remedial groups were withdrawn and then returned to class with a total absence or communication . |
| 21 | ‘ So you jumped to the conclusion that the two episodes were connected and instantly assumed that the villain was me ! ’ |
| 22 | It was also commonly described by an interpretation of modern society as ‘ mass society ’ , in which such different elements as very large audiences , relative ‘ impersonality ’ of transmission or ‘ anonymity ’ of reception , and the ‘ unorganized heterogeneity ’ of ‘ democratic and commercial ’ societies were fused and indeed confused . |
| 23 | Competition from other industrial countries was already attacking the markets for traditional British manufactures before the turn of the century ; the First World War meant that many overseas markets were lost or severely curtailed . |
| 24 | Stock solutions of inhibitors were made and serially diluted in the culture media . |
| 25 | I was proud and delighted when Shimi Lovat invited me to join him as piper , and later , on the morning of 6th June , to pipe his 1st Commando Brigade through the surf and on to the Normandy beaches , where so many men were killed or seriously wounded . |
| 26 | Suspects were arrested and sometimes killed , while their families were subjected to intimidation . |
| 27 | In a measured reconsideration of Blincoe 's account , after a modern historian seeking to defend the early cotton masters sought to discredit it , Professor Musson concluded : There is no doubt whatever that many children were exploited and ill treated in the early textile mills , that they were used as cheap factory labour , that their hours of work were far too long , that accident , ill-health and deformities were common , and that cruel punishments were often inflicted . |
| 28 | All sections were coded and then analysed for the relationship between nitroblue tetrazolium deposits and the degree of inflammation . |
| 29 | In other cases women were raped or sexually abused because they were related to men the authorities could not capture or because they were of a particular ethnic or national origin . |
| 30 | In one of the experiments , a group of students were blindfolded and then taken on a coachride . |